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| Keywords: people surreal indoor monochrome portrait Eliza Newton Woolsey Howland (1826 – 1917) was an American author and the wife of Union Army officer Joseph Howland. Among other things, Eliza served as a nurse on hospital transport ships during the Peninsular Campaign of 1862. Howland was born in 1826 to a prominent New York City family active in philanthropy and social reform, especially abolitionism and the decent care of the mentally ill. Her parents were Charles William Woolsey, a descendant of an early English settler in what was then the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, and Jane Eliza Newton of Alexandria, Virginia. At the age of nineteen, she married Joseph Howland, the son of a New York City shipping magnate. The couple honeymooned in Europe and the Holy Land. During the Italian leg of their trip, the couple commissioned marble busts of themselves from the neoclassical sculptor, Giovanni Maria Benzoni. After their honeymoon, Joseph and Eliza Howland moved to Tioronda, an estate Joseph bought along the banks of the Fishkill Creek in Matteawan, New York, present day Beacon, New York. During the American Civil War, Joseph joined the Sixteenth New York Volunteers and served until he was seriously wounded during the Seven Days Battles of the Peninsular Campaign. According to family letters, she began her contribution to the war effort by making pillow cases and hospital gowns for the army. During her husband's absence, Howland and her sisters wrote constantly to each other, their correspondence being eventually published in 1899 as Letters of a family during the Civil War, 1861-1865. This book was republished in 2001 as My Heart Towards Home: letters of a family during the Civil War. Howland also wrote and privately printed Family records: being some account of the ancestry of my mother and father Charles William Woolsey and Jane Eliza Newton in 1900. Eliza Howland (Wikipedia) _______________________ Sisters Georgeanna and Eliza were two of four sisters of the Woolsey family who volunteered as nurses during the Civil War. Georgeanna volunteered as a nurse through the Women's Central Relief Agency of New York and had one month of training with them before her first assignment at the Georgetown Hospital. She then assisted in setting up a hospital in the Patent Offices in Washington, D.C., a building that now houses the National Portrait Gallery. Eliza ministered to the men serving under her husband, Colonel Joseph Howland of the 16th New York Infantry Regiment, until they began an active campaign. Unable to get permission to follow her husband, Eliza, along with Georgeanna, worked as a nurse in the headquarters of the U.S. Sanitary Commission Hospital Transport Service during the spring of 1862. Georgeanna was then assigned as assistant superintendent of Portsmouth Grove General Hospital in Washington. She lived with Eliza who served in hospitals in the capital until war ended. In the spring of 1863, Georgeanna was assigned to serve in the field, serving at Falmouth, Gettysburg, Belle Plain, Port Royal, Fredericksburg, White House, and City Point, Virginia. In 1863, Georgeanna published a book about her experiences at Gettysburg and in 1899 published the family's letters describing the sisters' experiences as nurses. ______________ Read more about Civil War Nurses. (U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center at Carlisle Barracks) Eliza Newton Woolsey Howland (1826 – 1917) was an American author and the wife of Union Army officer Joseph Howland. Among other things, Eliza served as a nurse on hospital transport ships during the Peninsular Campaign of 1862. Howland was born in 1826 to a prominent New York City family active in philanthropy and social reform, especially abolitionism and the decent care of the mentally ill. Her parents were Charles William Woolsey, a descendant of an early English settler in what was then the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, and Jane Eliza Newton of Alexandria, Virginia. At the age of nineteen, she married Joseph Howland, the son of a New York City shipping magnate. The couple honeymooned in Europe and the Holy Land. During the Italian leg of their trip, the couple commissioned marble busts of themselves from the neoclassical sculptor, Giovanni Maria Benzoni. After their honeymoon, Joseph and Eliza Howland moved to Tioronda, an estate Joseph bought along the banks of the Fishkill Creek in Matteawan, New York, present day Beacon, New York. During the American Civil War, Joseph joined the Sixteenth New York Volunteers and served until he was seriously wounded during the Seven Days Battles of the Peninsular Campaign. According to family letters, she began her contribution to the war effort by making pillow cases and hospital gowns for the army. During her husband's absence, Howland and her sisters wrote constantly to each other, their correspondence being eventually published in 1899 as Letters of a family during the Civil War, 1861-1865. This book was republished in 2001 as My Heart Towards Home: letters of a family during the Civil War. Howland also wrote and privately printed Family records: being some account of the ancestry of my mother and father Charles William Woolsey and Jane Eliza Newton in 1900. Eliza Howland (Wikipedia) _______________________ Sisters Georgeanna and Eliza were two of four sisters of the Woolsey family who volunteered as nurses during the Civil War. Georgeanna volunteered as a nurse through the Women's Central Relief Agency of New York and had one month of training with them before her first assignment at the Georgetown Hospital. She then assisted in setting up a hospital in the Patent Offices in Washington, D.C., a building that now houses the National Portrait Gallery. Eliza ministered to the men serving under her husband, Colonel Joseph Howland of the 16th New York Infantry Regiment, until they began an active campaign. Unable to get permission to follow her husband, Eliza, along with Georgeanna, worked as a nurse in the headquarters of the U.S. Sanitary Commission Hospital Transport Service during the spring of 1862. Georgeanna was then assigned as assistant superintendent of Portsmouth Grove General Hospital in Washington. She lived with Eliza who served in hospitals in the capital until war ended. In the spring of 1863, Georgeanna was assigned to serve in the field, serving at Falmouth, Gettysburg, Belle Plain, Port Royal, Fredericksburg, White House, and City Point, Virginia. In 1863, Georgeanna published a book about her experiences at Gettysburg and in 1899 published the family's letters describing the sisters' experiences as nurses. ______________ Read more about Civil War Nurses. (U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center at Carlisle Barracks) | ||||
